Lovely precise relaxed musicianship and great tune. 👍

people my age hear Sweet Jane immediately but your fresh vocals, melody, & lyrics retake the territory right away!!

Watch me perform this song live on Metal Head Hippie W.A.R.P. show 11/15/22, time stamp 4:40 youtu.be/jcKIKlIJlyo

Its not you Its not me adjust the scene
I’ve been on a chainsaw fantasy 
High and low extreme no in between
Just left side right side red or green
So long you tired blues
So long we got the strength to choose
Who to be what to see so set your scene
a teaser, pleaser whatever you want to be
Just not a full time lover, that’s much too clean I’m fixing on a whole new scene
Think I finally found my better song that’s what they called it that’s what they called it
How’d it take so long to get where you belong hate when I fade away love when I come back 
Not a crime to live out fantasies
She can eat your cake but save your pie for me 
Now we’re on the scene that makes you scream
There’s no restriction just keep coming back to me
So strong we’ll never lose
So wrong we’re breaking all the rules
All the things we want or thought we’d need
If less is more we’ll have it all so come with me
And be a full time lover who’s not that clean and beat me at my own damn scene
Think I finally found my better song that’s what they called it that’s what they called it
How’d it take so long to get where you belong hate when I fade away love when I come back
Think I finally found my better song 
How’d it take so long to get where you belong hate when I fade away love when I come back to you
I’m not a full time lover that’s much too clean I’m fixing on a whole new scene
Think I finally found my better song that’s what they called it that’s what they called it
How’d it take so long to get where you belong hate when I fade away love when I come back
Think I finally found my better song 
How’d it take so long to get where you belong hate when I fade away love when I come back to you

Adjust The Scene

sometimes we need to blow out and rest from the shite

Shut Up Shop

Last Days of Summer

Music by River Dolphins & Cosmic Keanu
https://soundcloud.com/river_dolphins/pole-shift-river-dolphins-cosmic-keanu

Vocals, Lyrics & Art by Cosmic Keanu

Pole Shift

The earth shakes below
lightning flashes above
hearts and minds are broken
Poison all around

Nowhere else to go
Everywhere the same
There’s no time at all
where we find ourselves

If we could only see
That we lack nothing
fear would fade away
Only truth would stay

Swallowing the hook
we consume the bait
Can’t agree at all
Save the need for change

Divided in our minds
Can’t tell love from hate
Then before we know
It may be too late

Blind with mental plays
walk into the blaze
Cannot see what’s here
in front of our face

Earth shakes below
lightning flashes above
hearts and minds broken
Poison all around

If we could only see
That we lack nothing
fear would fade away
Only truth would stay

Earth shakes below
lightening flash above
Hearts and minds broken
Poison all around

If we could only see
That we lack nothing
fear would fade away
Only truth would stay

Seeing in real time
Following the way
Having seen what’s real
Only truth will stay

Lightly holding on
As the poles turn round
peaceful through it all
as the world falls down

Pole Shift (River Dolphins & Cosmic Keanu)

To the River, To the Sea (Rough cuts and demos 6)

Sailing away on the crest of a wave
Point our bows to the rising sun
The diamond sea sings so softly to me
It says...

Day after day as our world fades away
We set a course for the brightest star
We fall fast asleep and dream crystalline dreams
’Til we arrive

When we arrive
When we arrive
We’ll build a city that burns like a fire

When we arrive
If we survive
Our children are greeted
By the Garden of Eden
They’ll never go hungry again
Oh what a feast we’ll have then
They’ll never go hungry again

A New World (Pilgrim Song)

This is a cover song that Rekha and I did.  It's a Carpenters track and we held on to most of the original arrangement but took some creative license otherwise 

For me the Carpenters are like John Denver or the 80's hair metal scene - something I enjoy but don't tell just a whole lot of people about.   Doing this one was Rekha's idea and I think she nailed it.   This track is brought to life by her killer performance.  

There's a guitar intro to this thing here.  
https://soundcloud.com/texmex-shaman/weve-only-just-begun-or-whatever

Another note - I personally want to dedicate this track to my good friend and synth-master Steve Fullyard (@steve-fullyard) who married his lovely bride K very recently. I wish them both all the happiness they can handle.

Cover of We've Only Just Begun by the Carpenters
Songwriters: Paul Williams / Roger Nichols
Made popular by the Carpenters
Vocals - Rekha Iyern [Fe]
The rest - TMS 


Lyrics
We've only just begun to live
White lace and promises
A kiss for luck and we're on our way
(We've only begun)
Before the risin' sun, we fly
So many roads to choose
We'll start out walkin' and learn to run
(And yes, we've just begun)
Sharing horizons that are new to us
Watchin the signs along the way
Talkin' it over, just the two of us
Workin' together day to day
Together
And when the evening comes, we smile
So much of life ahead
We'll find a place where there's room to grow
(And yes, we've just begun)
Sharing horizons that are new to us
Watchin' the signs along the way
Talkin' it over, just the two of us
Workin' together day to day
Together
Together
And when the evening comes, we smile
So much of life ahead
We'll find a place where there's room to grow
And yes, we've just begun

We've Only Just Begun

We've Only Just Begun - w/ Rekha

After a trip through the Mediterranean with the paramour of my life years ago... these lyrics emerged as an expression of gratitude and love. Yesterday those lyrics found home in this new original composition.

Forever thinking about you and the family we've made baby.

Thinkin' About You

This song appears on an album called Synthastic alongside those some other amazing musicians with whom my Swiss friend, the very talented and gracious Karin-Maria Brunner collaborated. It's an album centered around the synthesizer, whatever sounds one can get from it, based on her ideas. I cannot properly express my depth of honor and gratitude to her for including me with musicians I admire, like Frans Beelaard, and for sharing her creative seeds with me. Karin-Maria is a truly exquisite musician, with a very disciplined style and mind for musical precision, as well as beautiful melody. You can find her on here under her name. She actually shared two songs with me for this project, and this is the first of those. I tried to come up with an interesting, modal melody for both, in hopes of impressing her. I hope it has the same effect on you. I also provided the beat and bass line for this song. You can find the entire album on your favorite streaming service. We appreciate your listens! 

Magic Hour (with Karin-Maria Brunner from her album Synthastic)

Sell Me Mrs Rita

Back in the late 80s and before the 1992 Gin Blossoms song, Mrs Rita was an oldschool Tempe AZ psychic card reader home business in a small old bungalow along University Ave in Tempe USA. The house still has a sign out front advertising physic card palm readings. Mrs Rita is a remnant of Tempe before chain breweries, condos, office buildings, and corporate commercial mania took over and demolished and rebuilt much of the town, beginning in the late 1980s. The era of Mrs. Rita was from back when sticky floor cinderblock bars and cheap pitchers of Miller Light combined with chicken wings and late night live-music to produce influential mainstream bands with worldwide radio play. Tempe was like a mini Seattle with dry heat an desert sun and much friendlier 90s grunge kids 

Tempe’s Gin Blossoms are still at it and play this tune about the hometown roadside psychic - and she’s still down the street from where Long Wongs was, where they played that song hundreds of times. And that song can be still found on the radio every single minute of every day ever since and I’m doing my best to keep it going, not tired of it yet - will never happen 

Key PowerPoint summary list of take-away bullet items about the Gin Blossoms Mrs Rita:
* Mrs. Rita became famous when the Tempe band Gin Blossoms named the song after her. She is still there has been renting the same small 1920s house for three decades 
* I tried to go there for a reading one evening with some drunk friends circa 1991 but she said we needed an appointment and told us to come back later - I thought she would have known we were coming over, maybe she did…
* A nine-story luxury apartment complex with a Whole Foods was built across the street from Mrs. Rita's Spiritual Awakening Center in 2018
* Iconic psychic Mrs. Rita apparently didn’t see in the tarot cards that her longtime downtown Tempe house was listed by her landlord and sold shortly thereafter for $2.9 million. Her rent must be astronomical €£¥
* Fact: Mrs. Rita wasn’t aware the house was listed for sale when she was contacted by The Arizona Republic Newspaper - I did my research 
* The band’s guitarist Jesse Valenzuela posted the listing for the property on his Facebook page when he found out. His only comment: "Mrs Rita house for sale." One of his friends posted, "sell me Mrs Rita..."

Yelp Review Mrs Rita's Palm Reading - Tempe, AZ - https://www.yelp.com/biz/mrs-ritas-palm-reading-tempe

JTS

Mrs Rita

Campeones

C a m p e o n e s

Music from the Hill- Indie rock from near Oxford, UK.
https://linktr.ee/arrowsofthesun

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Latest Nightshift magazine demo review (Nov 2022): 
http://nightshiftmag.co.uk/2022/nov.pdf

Nightshift demo review from Jan 2022: http://nightshiftmag.co.uk/2022/jan.pdf

To the River, To the Sea (Rough cuts and demos 6)

Arrows of the Sun

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